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Date:         Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:51:01 -0500
Reply-To:     Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: 1989 Carat Vanagon For Sale... Southern Pennsylvania
Comments: To: George Goff <THX0001@AOL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <1d4.2f8fec64.2ecd9a05@aol.com>
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George.... Where is Southern PA? Got to be the right side of the state?

Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 86-SS Syncro Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler 92-Jetta GWC www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, George Goff wrote:

> In a message dated 11/17/04 10:03:50 PM, jjmojo@BLAZENET.NET writes: > > << Van is not rusty at all.. super minor seam rust on drivers side that i > have addressed and stopped. >> > > >From time to time I see statements such as this both here and in other venues > and I have to wonder why such things are said. These incongruities often > cause me to doubt the discernment if not the integrity of the speaker. Although > it is not a legitimate word, "rustfree" means NO rust, none, zip, nada. "Not > rusty at all" means the same. Mint means MINT. Cherry means CHERRY. > Pristine means PRISTINE. When we are cutting deals more and more at greater and > greater distances, these words take on even greater import. > > I just drove 500 miles to buy a car which was offered up as rustfree. > Although the seller seemed to be accurate and honest whenever I spoke to him, I > still was compelled to parse his every word to the point that I had him on the > ground with phone in hand checking every seam I had known to rust on the type of > car he was selling. Fortunately, he was more of a mechanic and less of a > salesmen, so evasiveness was not his forte. Even after all that I put him > through, I still expected to be greeted with disappointment whenever I would see the > car. Well, hallelujah! Tell Diogenes to snuff out his lantern because I > finally found an honest man after viewing cars advertised on the internet over the > past 10 years. > > Last year at this time I bought another car at distance. The experience was > not as uneventful as my recent one, but it was salvageable. The car was 140 > miles from me and it was succinctly offered up as "pristine". In speaking with > the seller, I detected an accent so I kept hammering him on the word > "pristine" until I was sure he appreciated its meaning and also appreciated the fact > that I was about to travel nearly 300 miles on the weight of that one word. As > it turned out, the car was very, very nice, but not pristine. As it also > turned out, the seller was an Argentinean with a Ph.D. in poli sci from Columbia > so whenever I handed him a sheet of paper with the definition of "pristine" > printed on it (P to the sixth power - Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor > Performance), this man of letters was most accepting of my offer. > > George >


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